Accompanying General Barbanegel and General Delney, there were the Irish regiments and Catalan regiments of the Third Infantry Brigade, as well as a military police battalion commanded by Major Pochi. After arriving in the town of Montijo, the above-mentioned troops carried out on-site defense in their respective areas as soon as possible in their respective areas, and together with the military police teams stationed outside the town, they surrounded the entire town.

At this time, the injured Major Mardan had woken up. When he was pulled off by the mob, his head accidentally hit the hard stone slab on the ground. This was the main reason why he was unconscious on the spot. As for the dirty blood on his body, it was mostly splattered on his uniform when he was chopping and killing the mob.

When he learned that the two generals and the major military police arrived together, Major Mardan threw away the medical doctor who had wrapped his wounds. He struggled to get up, staggered forward and reported to the superiors.

"... Everything I said is true, the cause is that the Spanish provocation was ahead, and they shot and killed Father Mendoza, so the soldiers fought back, causing..."

"Okay, major, we have understood everything you said. Let's go and rest first, and leave the other things to the superiors." Seeing that the bandage on Mardan's head was bleeding again, General Barbanegel quickly ordered the coming military doctor to help him back to the camp.

"No, get out of here!" Major Mardan pushed away the military doctor who was trying to pull him away. He tried to shake his body, straighten his torso again, and said to the two generals again: "Yes, my soldiers are not wrong. They are just doing self-defense. If you think you are wrong, please punish me directly!"

Major Mardan suffered a slight concussion on his head, but this did not affect his final intention of the commanders to dispatch two regiments and one battalion, and nearly 3,000 troops to siege Montijo. If it was to shoot the townspeople, it was barely self-defense or excessive defense, as for setting fire to houses, plunder property, or even rape women, it was obviously a reason that military rules were unreasonable.

General Barbanegel pity the Major's protection for his soldiers. In fact, he had led the French army to do many such bastards, most of which were left unresolved. Although the commander of the Third Brigade wanted to rescue his subordinates, he did not dare to act arbitrarily, because there was a temporary commander and a military police officer in charge of military discipline.

"What do you think of the two?" General Barbanegel turned his head and asked General Dernie and Major Poch for advice.

General Delney's face was solemn, Major Pochi was speechless, both of them said nothing. They understood that this emergency was too difficult. It would be better to say that it was just a few officers and soldiers who violated the discipline and directly handed over to the military police and the Military Law Department for handling. The problem now is that nearly a thousand officers and soldiers in the regiment committed the crime together, almost killing all the entire town, snatching them, and burning them all.

General Barbanegel saw that everyone was putting the blame on him again, and was happy without being angry. Knowing that the two of them were unwilling to take too much responsibility, he had the opportunity to take advantage of it and relieve some of the guilt of his subordinates. However, when he showed his expression, he sighed heavily.

Then he said: "Major Mardan, if you are not in trouble, go to the town to bring the soldiers out and accept a check by the gendarmerie. In addition, Colonel Ramos's Catalan regiment will take over the defense of Montijo and do various damage statistics. As for other matters, General Delney and I will make an announcement after waiting for Major Pochi's opinion. Finally, Major, please tell your soldiers that before passing through the church outside the town, everyone must remove their rifles, bayonets and armed belts, and hand them over to the gendarmerie battalion at the same time."

After hearing this, General Delney and Major Poch agreed and agreed. General Barbanegel was the chief officer of the Third Brigade, but he joined the Desay Division shortly after he made a seemingly "fair" handling opinion, which would be best.

Major Mardan was also glad that as long as the commanders did not immediately regard the Northern Aragon Regiment as a rebellion, the matter would be much easier. After all, the law does not punish the masses, and he still has a little time to let the bad guys clean their butts and deal with the interrogation of the military police. Therefore, this is the best solution at present. Major Mardan greeted everyone with gratitude, greeted several officers and returned to Montiho town with him.

Twenty minutes later, the Northern Aragon Regiment, led by Major Mardan, arrived as scheduled. When all the officers and soldiers passed by the open space in front of the church, they stepped forward and took the initiative to remove their armed forces, which made the military police on the side breathe a sigh of relief. At the same time, the Catalan Regiment cooperated with a military police to take over the defense of Montijo.

Walking in the town that survived the disaster, there were tragic scenes full of devastations. Wherever you saw, there were ruins and corpses everywhere. Some houses were still burning and bursts of black smoke continued to rise. The remaining houses were robbed, and all valuable items were piled up in the central square.

The soldiers of the Catalan regiment were ordered to count and identify the number of people who had just been unfortunately killed. They were surprised to find that although some were seriously injured, they still did not die and crawled desperately and shouted for help; some called in heartbreaking voices, begging others to beat them to death; most of the living were raped women, and most of them had become crazy.

Not far away, a few women with good looks were naked, shaking their legs on the only road leading to the central square, waving their headscarf high, turning around from time to time and laughing at the soldiers, and their mouths were always talking nonsense, which was creepy. One of the women's arms were wrapped in clothes, as if they were interrupted by bullets, and blood kept dripping to the ground.

Seeing this, Colonel Martin Ramos shook his head and couldn't help but curse angrily: "This group of lawless bastards."

Ola, the captain, who was doing statistics on the casualties of the town, walked up and asked in a low voice: "Col. Are I making a truthful record, or?"

Colonel Ramos glared at his adjutant and then made a completely different instruction. "Records truthfully, but when calling the townsmen a mob, General Barbanegel did not want the Third Brigade to have only two regiments left. Besides, the life and death of the Spaniards had nothing to do with us Catalans. In addition, collect all the survivors and leave them to the military police for custody. As for the seriously injured, understand their suffering in a humane way and let the priests accompany you to help you."

Before entering the town of Montijo, General Barbanegel gave Colonel Ramos some hints, and the latter did not want to offend his superiors and colleagues.

"... During the attack on Montijo town, the Northern Aragon regiment killed more than 1,400 mobs, and most of the remaining 53 were women. Among them, one-quarter of the houses were burned... The Northern Aragon regiment also suffered 19 casualties in this battle, including 3 killed, 5 seriously injured, and 11 slightly injured... According to the subsequent statistics of the military police, a total of 125 soldiers were drunk in the battle, and 14 people robbed property privately. All those who violate military discipline will be punished by the corresponding military discipline."

After combining the statistical results of Colonel Ramos and the gendarmerie, Major Pochi reported to the two generals. During this period, he avoided the important points and described the townspeople as mobs, and deliberately ignored the evil behavior of soldiers raping women. Of course, the number of soldiers who had private property also shrunk greatly, but it was not that the gendarmerie deliberately concealed it, but Major Mardan warned the soldiers in advance.

"Sorry, two generals!" Major Poch changed his tone and continued to say to General Delney and General Barbanegel: "As the chief military police officer, I have a more detailed and realistic content in my hand, which will be handed over to the highest commander of the division along with the previous report. As for General Desay, I cannot be sure of which kind to adopt."

General Delney and General Barbanegel both understood that this was the greatest effort that Major Poch could do within his authority. In the end, the two generals could only pray that Duke Hruna would take high and make small things less.

...

The next day, Major Pochi submitted two reports about the Montijo town incident were sent to the Badajos Fortress at noon and placed on the desk of the division command post. However, Desai did not have time to check it out. He was working with Lieutenant Colonel Deva, Alfonsos Salva, and several engineers to fiddle with new things made from vulcanized rubber, tires, to be precise, solid tires from diagonal lines.

For more than 300 years when natural rubber was introduced from America to Europe, no one realized its true purpose except for being a pinball toy for children and an eraser for pencils. However, due to the personal preferences of some nobles who like strange things, especially the Portuguese aristocrats, they still stockpiled a large amount of seemingly useless Brazilian raw rubber in their estates.

Alfonsos Salva once told the Duke of Hruna that Badajos, which was originally the easternmost city of the Portuguese Kingdom, was the largest trading market for natural rubber in Europe before it was occupied by Spain. Most of the rubber he bought from Madrid came from Badajos.

After learning the news, Desai was very surprised. When he was thinking about how to get these treasures, God had prepared everything for him. So he ordered Lieutenant Colonel Deva to assist Alfonsos Salva during the march, in addition to continuing to improve the chemical telegraph, he devoted part of his energy to the development of a new product, a diagonal line solid tire.

After Desai arrived at the Badajos Fortress in advance, the first thing he did was not to listen to General Bonai's report, but to order him to purchase raw rubber from Brazil in the abandoned natural rubber trading market in the Badajos Fortress, nearby aristocratic manors, and hand it over to Alfonsos Salva, and the R&D team he led.

Although the various carriages of the Napoleon era are gorgeous in appearance and luxurious in their built-in, they still use bulky and extremely slow-speed wooden (small amount of iron) wheels. Even if the spring pressure relief device is installed, the best four-wheeled car will drive on a flat avenue and speed up slightly, and it will be unbearable for people to feel bumpy up and down.

Of course, turning the wooden wheel into a patterned solid rubber wheel was not Desai's original intention. He hoped that Alfonsos Salva would work with the engineers to get it in place in one step and develop a radial pneumatic tire with a wider use and better market prospects half a century ahead of time. However, decades of technological accumulation cannot be achieved by just one stroke of the head.

However, the emergence of solid tires in diagonal lines has been a great surprise. After installing the test items onto the large truck and the cannon truck, it not only supports the entire weight of the vehicle and bears its load, but also ensures the adhesion between the wheels and the road surface, reduces and absorbs the vibration and impact force of the vehicle when driving, prevents parts from being severely shaken and early damage, and has good handling stability.

Wooden vehicles form large baggage carts or artillery vehicles, and their speed is slightly lower than that of infantry marching. It doesn't matter on weekdays, but when war is urgent and soldiers are required to marche, logistics supply and transportation artillery will fall far behind the infantry, which will not only lose protection, but will be easily ambushed by guerrillas, but will also affect the combat command ahead, causing the infantry to lack supply and firepower support.

However, in front of Desai, Lieutenant Colonel Deva was driving a large black solid rubber wheel car, the above problems will be effectively alleviated. After repeated testing, the modified large car or artillery car can travel at a speed of 8 to 9 kilometers per hour on the flat ground, slightly lower than the speed of forced infantry marching. Moreover, the above-mentioned vehicles are still in good condition during the speeding process and are not easy to fall apart. They can be flexible and flexible even on rubble piles, and have good inclined climbing ability.

"Very good!" Desai praised the logistics officer who jumped out of the cart and told him to urge Alfonsus Salva to seize the time and develop more solid tires. He must "replace" all the logistics and baggage teams and artillery teams before the Desai division sets out again.
Chapter completed!