At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was a feudal town, but in Western Europe

Kyrillos shifted his gaze to those "one-armed giants", and he said with some trepidation: "There are many skilled craftsmen among these Seresians. In the history of our Romans, there are also these catapults. It's just that our catapults are precise and heavy, while their catapults are crude and light, but they can achieve very good results."

"Mysterious power from the east." Bolenus's words were not lacking in pride, "However, these Seres are already Saxons, and this power belongs to every Saxon."

"Aren't you from Constantinople?"

"Unfortunately, I love Constantinople, but Constantinople doesn't love me." Bolenus spread his hands, "Could it be that Constantinople is more gentle and tolerant to you?"

Kirillos closed his mouth. He looked up at the goshawks circling in the sky, and said, "If it wasn't for the recommendation of His Excellency Tarassios, I would rather die in Constantinople."

Hearing this, Bolenus couldn't help laughing from the bottom of his heart. His Excellency Tarassios is busy this year. He is afraid that you people will make trouble again under the instigation of the Iconoclasts and Anatolian nobles.

In 786, His Royal Highness Harun Rashid, who had led the army almost to the city of Constantinople, officially succeeded the Caliph after the death of his brother Hadi.

To put this ambitious young monarch on the throne, Lord Tarassios needs to keep an eye on his movements.

At this moment, Queen Irina is still preparing for the Council of Nicaea next year. She will forcibly restore the worship of icons. At that time, what will this group of restless scholars do in King Castle? No one could have predicted it.

As for sending these scholars to Saxony, Tarassios had his own considerations. The Eastern Empire could not withstand the pressure of two sides attacking.

Now Abbas in the east is trying to occupy the territory of the empire in Anatolia. In the west, the Duke of Benevento is coveting the territory of Naples. As for King Francis Charles, he wants to take back the entire Apennine Peninsula and Sicily.

Through the conversation with Bolenus, Tarassios clearly felt that the duke, who was always known for his loyalty, seemed to be a little cautious.

These scholars are the waste utilization of Talasios, a gift to Feng Sen, an ambitious prince, enough to give Charlie a headache for a while.

As for the relationship between Feng Sen and Charlie, Talasios can only say that existence is a threat, and no emperor will allow such a Saxony to exist for too long.

After completing his mission, His Excellency Anthony will definitely be summoned to the capital to become Charlie's advisor. His family will definitely become a local big family, but that's all.

The only window of time is when Charlie summons Feng Sen to Worms or Aachen. At that time, everything will naturally become clear.

Bolenus understood these words, but he didn't know if Kirillos understood.

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Bolenus pulled the topic away. "When you get to Hamburg, you will find that it is no worse than any other city except Junburg."

"Can lush seedlings grow on dry land?"

"Of course, Hamburg is a free place. In the defense hall, everyone can express their opinions. Whether it is an iconoclast or a salute faction, even heretics can have a place. In Hamburg, you can also Saw some familiar faces."

Kirillos' eyes flickered: "Who? Has anyone come before?"

Bolenus laughed and said, "Of course, Bachelor Eugene is now in charge of the construction department, and he is currently in charge of a major water conservancy project measurement project."

"Eugene, so it's him." Kirillos' face showed a smile of an old acquaintance, "I haven't seen him for several years, and he is here."

"You'll be surprised when you see him."

While Bolenus and Kirillos were walking on the grass, Feng Sen was holding a long sword, sitting on a chair with a big horse, looking at the young man below.

According to those Villetti prisoners of war, it was this person who came up with the so-called white sheep's blood, who was the culprit for Feng Sen's face being splashed with white sheep's blood.

In fact, Feng Sen thought at first that they were pouring menstrual blood. After all, at a certain time in the future, people at that time would use black dog blood and menstrual blood to destroy the cannon. No wonder Feng Sen would be furious.

"What's your name?" Feng Sen asked in a bad tone.

With the help of an interpreter, the warlock with a bruised nose and face knelt on the ground and replied, "My name is Roerlov, and I am a warlock from the Brenna tribe."

"Why do you think Aries blood can destroy our armor and weapons?"

"I got it through divination." Lorlov said in a muffled voice, "Your god, Isaiah is a shepherd, and he must be very scared when the sheep dies, so we use the blood of white sheep..."

Feng Sen shook his head dumbfoundingly: "Oh, really, come here, send me to the labor camp."

"Wait, wait!" Seeing the appearance of two guards with swords, Rorlov obviously misunderstood something, he struggled hard and kicked the carpet into folds, "Your Excellency, I have something to say! You It will definitely be of interest, Your Excellency the Duke..."

"Let him go." The two guards let go, and Lorlov crawled up to Feng Sen, kissing his boots, "What's the matter?"

Swallowing his saliva, as if he had made up his mind, Lorlov gritted his teeth and said, "Your Excellency, I have a way to make the Villetti surrender to you without a single soldier. As long as you can keep me alive, I will tell you!"

Chapter 356 The Veleti People Haven't Shed Enough Blood

"Take him down, lock him up with those captured warlocks, and arrange some light work." Feng Sen casually ordered the attendants around him.

"Jie Shuai, do you really think his words are credible?" Seeing the young warlock being carried away by two attendants, Sun Jingxiao couldn't help it.

Feng Sen didn't speak, just tapped the armrest of the chair with his hands, and after a while he replied: "It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not."

Sun Jingxiao frowned: "This warlock named Luoerlov doesn't seem very smart. His white sheep blood is not very reliable, and this plan is even more unreliable."

"Do you really think that Rohrov represents himself?" Feng Sen shook his head helplessly and chuckled, "Standing behind him are the great warlocks and priests of the Slavic gods, as long as their right to speak can be guaranteed, It doesn't matter who comes to King Villetti.

As long as this plan can get the support of the warlocks, the fake will become real. Besides, do you think they are surrendering?No, this is to preserve strength, save people and lose land, save everyone and land, sacrifice a king in exchange for the future of the Villetti people, this is a good deal.

I asked Lorlov to stay with those warlocks, just to let my meaning be conveyed to the warlock group. To subdue the Vileti people, you don't have to rely on the sword. "

"So that's how it is." Sun Jingxiao nodded excitedly, "Then I'll go get ready."

"No, no need." Feng Sen stopped Sun Jingxiao who was about to go out. Under the suspicious eyes of the other party, Feng Sen laughed and said, "It's not enough now, the blood of the Villetti people hasn't shed enough."

Those warlocks really thought Feng Sen was a fool and followed their way?Although the strategy is good, but Feng Sen needs to modify it a little, so let's change the date to a year later.

Some things that can be done in a war cannot be done when there is peace. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the war, first do something special and then expand it. This is the correct path.

Thinking in his heart, Feng Sen's expression did not change.

To lengthen the time of the Villetti war, the first thing is to shed the blood of the Villetti people first, and make enough space for Feng Sen's people.

Second, it is for military training, not only for training the Eight Banners, but also for training civil servants and businessmen of the West Britain Company.

The third is to prevent Charlie from being recalled, and Feng Sen can still refuse because of the tension in the front line.

Now the area occupied by Feng Sen has basically covered the entire territory of the Brenner tribe, with a population of roughly 20, so it needs to be digested carefully.

The way of digestion is undoubtedly the Eight Banners.

To put it bluntly, the Eight Banners are similar to the guards of the Ming Dynasty. They belong to the second-line troops and are responsible for defense, laying hands and suppressing them.

The essence of the Eight Banners is the transition from a tribal system to a feudal system. According to common sense, the leaders and fighters do not oppose or even welcome the feudalization of the tribes, but it is the tribal people and lower-level fighters who really oppose feudalization.

The fundamental reason is that once feudalization occurs, these tribal people will become slaves of the chief, and the chief is basically hereditary and can no longer be elected by the tribal people.

The result of this is that the relationship between the leader, the elite fighters, and the tribal people used to be cooperation, and the civilians had little, but not no, right to speak. Now, the tribal people have become completely slaves to the leader and the elite fighters.

Not to mention that what is lost is power, and even the room for improvement is completely blocked, and the identity has changed from a freeman to a serf. No wonder those tribal people always turned back and forth during the Saxon War. Who can stand it? .

But the Eight Banners system is different. Of course, the Eight Banners is also a transformation of feudalization, but its difference is that in the process of feudalization, it took back the power of the leader to kill the serfs, and did not block the way to ascend.

A Veleti tribe has become eight banners, the leader has become a hundred households, the elite fighters have become bannermen, the lower warriors have become upper coats, and ordinary tribesmen have become lower coats. It seems that nothing has changed.

However, if the undercoat passes the assessment, it can be used as an overcoat, and there are not many people on the overcoat. When it comes to real combat, it is still necessary to recruit a lot of undercoats to go into battle together.

As long as there is a war, by beheading and capturing life, you can still become a coat, a bannerman, and even a hundred households in the Eight Banners.

The Eight Banners system draws a big cake hanging in front of the small tribe. Although life was good in the past, but after all, the battle was lost and we can only accept it. Besides, the Eight Banners limit is low, but the upper limit is high.

In the past, a tribal man started from nothing, and at most he ended up in the elite warrior class, and then he had to rely on generations of hard work, and with good luck, he might be able to get a leader.

But now, as long as he can behead his head and be able to behead his head, within three to five years he can even be promoted directly to the imperial army or even a thousand households. Sigurd, who is the first to enter the battle and step into the imperial army, is the goal and idol of the coaters.

At present, of the 20 population in the Brenner region, at least 15 will be filled in Saxony, and the remaining 3 population will be transformed into almost [-] people, which means about [-] to [-] hundred households.

Of course, among these hundreds of households and thousands of households, the hundred households from the south of the Elbe must have migrated over, and the newly added hundred households were also prepared for the bannermen and coaters who were promoted and promoted by North.

Once the construction of the Villetti Banner in the Brenner area is completed, Feng Sen can at least add another 1500 troops, and if he swallows the entire Villetti, he can even increase the strength of the Eight Banners by about 5000.

Hey, it would be great if this could be done. After all, the Brenner region is close to the Elbe River, and the development is not bad. There is not enough arable land in Radar or Chelsea Pania in the north. It may be difficult to set up the Eight Banners according to this process.

It is conservatively estimated that swallowing the entire Villetti will add almost 3000 troops to the Eight Banners. On the other hand, the Saxon tribes in Saxony have also seen the benefits of the Eight Banners and the Chinese. Feng Sen has sent Zhenhui to contact them. At this time next year, it is estimated that Saxony can add another 1000 troops.

If such a calculation is made, by that time, Feng Sen's subordinates will have 1000 government soldiers, 1000 teeth soldiers, and 6000 Eight Banners soldiers, and they can also recruit Yi Cong and allies in Villetti, Saxony, Southern Denmark, and Opalite. At least the strength can skyrocket to around [-].

If Feng Sen becomes ruthless and uses the Baojia system and the Eight Banners system to play the national war, [-] to [-] soldiers can even be thrown out.

However, if it develops at this rate, the growth of Han soldiers will not be able to keep up. The suppression of Han soldiers is the basis of the Eight Banners system.

The Han population, Feng Sen needs more Han population, but where should the Han population be found?

Let’s ask the almighty Clausewitz engine. After searching for a long time, Feng Sen finally locked two feasible directions.

The first one is an achievement, [Expanding the Territory] requires the actual controlled territory to be greater than [-] square kilometers, and can reward [-] people in the Central Plains.

The actual area under Feng Sen's current control is at most [-] to [-] square kilometers, and Southern Denmark, Eupolit, and Westphalia are not counted because they are not directly under him, but subcontracted and vassalized.

When the whole Villetti is swallowed, the area will be almost the same.

But this is a long-term consideration, because the previous item [Developing Internal Affairs (3/5)] of [Expanding Territory] requires the establishment of five cities, which he has not yet completed.

Only Hamburg, Magdeburg and Lübeck are counted as cities in Feng Sen, and the rest are not recognized by the Clausewitz engine.

Then the next goal is to build two new cities, Hannover is counted as one, Feng Sen is under construction, and when Mecklenburg in Eupolit is repaired, the conditions should be met.

The second is the emperor's grace, which is used to exchange population and soldiers, but if you want to speed up the growth of the emperor's grace, you need to build more business warehouses.

Feng Sen can't reach Crimea and the Balkans at present, and this can only rely on the help of the Jews.

"Jews..." Feng Sen rubbed his chin and laughed abruptly, "I thought of a good idea."

Chapter 357 Your Highness, you don't want the Villetti to invade Frank, do you?

Three days have passed since the battle in Tingen, and the news is still spreading and brewing around.

The capture of Dragovit does not necessarily represent the surrender of the Veleti people. After all, Dragovit is only one of the five Vileti tribes, or the strongest one.

The remaining four tribes still retain a considerable part of their strength.

But Feng Sen's camp stopped at Tingen. It was obviously only a few dozen miles away from Dragovit, but he didn't continue to march, but stopped at Tingen.

In Feng Sen's camp, the prisoners were dragged into the bathroom in batches, and their beards and hair were cut off too long. Some civilian men held large bristle brushes and brushed the Villetti prisoners screaming.

This was to prevent the spread of plague and fleas. After all, Feng Sen had captured nearly [-] prisoners this time. With so many people gathered together, it would be terrible if they accidentally contracted the plague.

In a large pit in the city wall, countless corpses were buried, and the wire braided armor, metal ring riveted armor, leather armor, armed clothing, as well as axes, long swords, and spears of various colors were piled up from the corpses to form a hill.

Among these equipment and weapons, the metal ring riveted armor can be taken away, such as leather armor, wire braided armor, and axes, and left to these rebels and tribal warriors.

To be honest, the weapons of these Veleti people are really rubbish, and some tribal chiefs can only wear leather armor and wire braided armor.

The so-called wire braided armor, that is, the butt chain armor, and the metal ring riveted armor belong to the same type of chain armor.

But the difference is that the latter is riveting metal rings together with a hammer bit by bit, while the latter is pressing iron wires into open rings, knitting them together like knitting a sweater, and it becomes a pair of locks. Zijia.

This kind of woven armor has relatively poor protection, but it is light and cheap.

Counting the number of ring mail armors in hand, there are only more than 1 pairs for every 200 people. Feng Sen directly threw them into the Eight Banners, which is just enough to equip a thousand households.

Feng Sen couldn't be too harsh on these junk equipment. After all, he won almost the entire Brenner, and the total hard currency, gold and silver coins, totaled only more than 3 solida, which was comparable to the cost.

This Dragovit is also a poor man.

In addition to placing prisoners and spoils of war, Feng Sen had to digest the acquired land.

So far, in the Brenner area, except for Dragovit, the other fifteen forts have completely fallen into Feng Sen's hands, and this only counts the forts with a thousand people.

If you count the villages with hundreds of people, I am afraid that there are hundreds of them. Among these people, there are both those who are sincerely obedient, and some who have ulterior motives. In addition, spring plowing is approaching, and some soldiers and civilian husbands are beginning to feel fluctuating, so how to occupy the existing ones? Territory has become a big problem.

It's not difficult to solve. This kind of tribal warriors belong to Mu Qiang. When Feng Sen subdued the local Saxon tribe in Hamburg, he relied on one-handed beatings and differentiation. After this set, he will be honest.

But it will also take time. Judging from the current situation, at least three or four months before, Feng Sen will never want to leave Villetti.

Of course, the spring plowing cannot be delayed, and the soldiers are also tired from the war, and it happens that some of the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in the garrison will be transferred to take shifts.

As for the problems of civilian workers and logistics, when the rain stops in February and the dirt road can pass, there will be no need for so many civilian workers.

Feng Sen is very satisfied with capturing a Brenner in one winter, and he can continue to catch fish next year.

The most important thing is to maintain this situation. As long as Charlie dares to say "come", Villetti will go to war immediately, and Feng Sen will immediately have to "be trapped by the war and make it difficult to come."

Your Highness, you don't want to be invaded by the hateful Veleti, do you?

January 787, 29, sunny.

Feng Sen is wearing a black and red crown hunting suit today, but it is a pity that there is a lack of materials in Saxony. This crown uniform is basically made of fine wool. It is the latest product of the Hannover printing and dyeing workshop.

Outside the hunting suit, he specially put on a flamboyant shiny silver armor, and stood on the soil platform built by Roerlov earlier.

The earth platform is not high, but on the platform, you can see the Tingen city wall in the distance, the black pine forest hidden in the mist and rain, and the misty green hills at a glance.

Lowering his head, Feng Sen looked at the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians gathered in front of him. He coughed lightly, and four loud attendants picked up their tin horns and aimed at the crowd below.

"Gentlemen, I said before that I am in the Jingnan Army and I am in the Saxon Shogunate. Among other things, I only emphasize two words, which are rules! What is a rule, what is said is a rule!" Feng Sen roared loudly.

"I said that I will pay you full salary, has it been paid?"

"Sent!" The soldiers shouted in unison.