prince of europe in quintiles

Chapter 250 Fifth, Hematuria

Horten is a dire wolf.

When he really decides to pull back his face and tear up his promise not to start a war at the beginning of the year, the result will be very different.

He had already conscripted a lot in the month before the autumn harvest and the first five days of the autumn harvest.

Before the autumn harvest, Huo Teng supplemented the heavy armored soldiers among the feudal soldiers and the infantry spear regiment among the peasant soldiers for a long time, as the backbone of his war.When the war broke out, Huo Teng immediately added regular army knights and peasant archers. He had [special conscripts], allowing him to replenish troops in two castles and two places.

The last thing before the war is to confirm that your strategic defense line will not be attacked by others taking advantage of the chaos.

"Captain Greb guards the southwest to prevent Fulda's famous generals from going north; Bernard Imdin, Count of Northheim, guards the Rumer River and will never allow the Saxons to go south; And bishop, order him to control the southeast stronghold. Contact our ally Paderborn Earl Val, who can also help guard the defense line on the northwest side. If he feels that he doesn't trust me, I will hand over Gunter to his mistress Ms Selena takes care."

Except for the offensive line in the east, Huo Teng has arranged all the other strategic arteries properly, marking possible enemies one by one.

Then, he pushed open the door of the study, and his wives were preparing to change him into the formal clothes for the expedition.

The belly is getting bigger and bigger. Compared with the snow-white, proud, and snow-white appearance of the past, Connorsa Northenburg, who is three-point charming and two-point married, is more charming. The former Countess of Göttingen is wearing a relaxed red dress. Rejecting the maid's support, she took the initiative to come to Huo Teng's side, and put on the chain mail used for the expedition for Huo Teng.

The pure, tranquil, and lovely little Gedisdiu, who is as cute as an oriole, also gradually shows a trace of green and mature charm under Huo Teng's daily development.She squatted down gently holding the hem of her skirt to help arrange Huo Teng's clothes and tighten the rope in the corner.

Already eight months pregnant, Amelia, who is really not suitable for exercise, came to Huo Teng with some difficulty, and hung a bag containing the remains of Huo Teng's brother on his waist: "It's a pity that I can't go out with you. I am also sorry that the child in my womb was born to Schneider. May his soul in heaven protect you from the disasters of war."

After opening the conversation, Conosha put on a black feather cloak for Huo Teng, and sighed while tying the rope: "Every autumn after year, I send you to the battlefield again. This is the third time, you must be safe." Come back, don't let us stay in the boudoir empty."

Goldis Diu put on a burqa for Huo Teng. The girl's tender white arms were covered with strangle marks. She patted Huo Teng's shoulder and urged Huo Teng: "You must come back quickly. The heavy snow in winter is always difficult to bear." past."

Goodbyes are always sad.

When cell phones are no longer available for instant communication, every farewell can be a farewell forever.

Even if they have full confidence in Huo Teng, Conosha and Goldiu have to accept the reality that there is no man who can always win.

Huo Teng hugged the women he loved one by one, and comforted them: "Don't worry, it's nothing more than hitting a little Eckard. Even his father is me... I can easily beat him."

At this time, the door was pushed open by Jones who was already wearing mail armor.

Another flamboyant and beautiful Adelaide lady wrapped her velvet skirt tightly and gave her cousin a slightly apologetic look.Conosha responded with an uncomfortable and menacing look.It looks like the Cousins ​​have reached a level of compromise.

"Let's go, the sun is urging me to move forward."

Huo Teng took a deep breath, and picked up his helmet decorated with a bronze statue of a black angel.

Before arriving at the school yard outside the castle, more than two hundred Göttingen knights who volunteered to go to the battlefield were all wearing mail armor or armor, riding horses on their hips, and waiting with their attendants for the meeting of His Royal Highness the Earl.Like them, nearly [-] dignitaries and gentry who voluntarily joined the army, represented Göttingen's big and small landowners and yeoman classes, and sent the greatest support to Horten.

But the army that is gathering on the other side seems to be telling these nobles that you are far from reaching the level of sending charcoal in a timely manner.

Thanks to the halfling tribe's hard work in domestication, Huo Teng organized 40 vulture riders with the help of the vultures born by Kuai Ling.The vultures, which were taller and faster than horses, moved out in aggressive groups, and the fierce and chilling atmosphere was even stronger than the gathering of war horses.All vulture riders have fiery red feathers on their bodies, and their pride is overflowing.

As Huo Teng's only monster knight who can be continuously recruited, the vulture rider's brilliant appearance made the local knights constantly envious.

Apart from them, there are three teams of 60 people, and the heavily armored retinue knights who changed into sea dragon scale armor also entered the battle order.Huo Teng noticed that it was unwise to expand the number of retinue knights to 100 before, and the financial pressure was too heavy to breathe.

In terms of infantry, Huo Teng also readjusted the army configuration.

He expanded the number of fighters in each team from 40 to 80.The first is the formation of the Sergeant Corps of Heavy Spears wearing chain mail and carrying spears and large shields.There are a total of 50 elite mail armor warriors, from the elite class of the nobles who are not knights. The armor they wear weighs [-] catties, and they are well-deserved heavy armor warriors.

On their two wings, they were converted into infantry spear regiments wearing sea dragon scale armor. After switching to heavy scale armor, although the weight of a single armor went to 50 catties, they still had lower maintenance costs and more stable protection capabilities. source of strength.A total of twelve teams, with a total of thousands of people, were arranged neatly and orderly in the second line.

Huo Teng had 30 chances to transform the sea dragon scale armor, half of which had been used up now.

A total of [-] heavily armored warriors wearing iron or biomass heavy armor were Huo Teng's main force in this battle.

At this time, not even the emperor could gather so many armored warriors, and even the Principality of Saxony would not be able to produce such a huge combat power for a while.

But the price of doing so is extremely heavy.

Soldiers are not capable of marching with dozens of catties of armor on their shoulders. They need a lot of animal power and human assistance.

Huo Teng's method was very simple. He recruited a full 1 peasant archers on horseback, and [-] to [-] peasant archers, using the cheapest army as auxiliary and long-range support troops on the battlefield.

In addition, Horten also conscripted hundreds of livestock and 500 labored farmers near Göttingen to escort food and grass and provide manpower support for the war.

As a result, the total number of troops has reached 5000 to more than 37, and the armor rate has reached an astonishing 330%. The monthly salary expenditure is nearly [-] gold. The capital expenditure alone is enough to make Huo Teng go bankrupt by the end of next year.But it is also powerful, a powerful army that even the king must hold his breath when he sees it.With this army, no one dared to claim that Huo Teng was just a lucky kid and had no right to interfere in the central affairs.

Huo Teng could declare to the outside world that he had gathered [-] troops to participate in the Meissen Succession War.

The 1500 corvée farmers will not go to the battlefield?

Who knew Huo Teng would count this group of people?

Huo Teng rode the proud Miss Laura slowly out of the stable.Wearing a battle armor weighing hundreds of catties, Miss Laura not only felt nothing heavy, she even took a proud dance step with ease.

"I won't say anything superfluous. I can only tell you that if I can't take Erfurt, I will go bankrupt and you will disperse, and the glory of the Angel of Death banner will lose its dignity. But I cut open my Treasury, I organized you into my army, not to die with you. People of Göttingen, go east with me! We will break the barrier of the mountains and annex the five textile cities of Erfurt and Gotana in one fell swoop Decorate my empty treasury with the gold flowing on the emperor's road and the expensive indigo, fill it as much as you have!"

There were boos in the army.

They are all from Göttingen, native-born fellows.

Huo Teng recruited a large number of troops, almost squeezing out the human resources here.

"Greedy old crow, no matter how selfish you are, we won't help you wear the king's crown."

"Hey, I promised to follow you until death, but I am not going to die poor with you."

They were clamoring and criticizing Huo Teng for his insatiable greed.

But everyone knocked on the armor on their bodies, and they also had to understand that Huo Teng had tried his best.

Since the patriarch of Göttingen tried his best, the tribal people can't lie at home and wait to die.

Miss Laura took a leap and took Huo Teng on the road to the Eastern Expedition.More than [-] knights held high the various family emblems, and proudly set foot on the conquest, followed by thousands of Göttingen men carrying armored shields.Along the way, from time to time, local dignitaries and gentry joined in on their own initiative, and followed the earl's team with their own dry food.

Angel of death, heading east.

……

But Erfurt as well can't wait.

For a full month and a half, Huo Teng's men and horses continued to walk through the nearby cities.There seems to be a large number of people, and on the north side, the bandit army of Geoffrey, Viscount of Harz Mountain, keeps coming and going.On the northeast side, Jimmy, the Lady of Bernburg, is supporting her, and behind her is Magdeburg, the former capital of the empire.

But the merchants and citizens of Erfurt are not stupid. Those armies are in ragged clothes. Except for the monster army led by Keshihai who appeared many times and Natur who appeared occasionally, the rest are rotten fish shrimp?

No matter how stupid a person is, he should understand that Huo Teng is still harvesting food at home, and he is not in the mood to go east.

But on the other side, little Eckard tried his best to urinate blood, forcing, even bullying, to let the nobles harvest the immature green wheat in advance, so as to reduce the time difference of the battle as much as possible.

"It took us only seven days to clean up the plowed fields. Even if the grain is 15% less than before, it will be extremely uncomfortable to eat and will get sick. Huo Teng is probably still rushing to harvest grain at home. His family has a big business. [-] days is the deadline, we have eight days!"

Little Eckard gathered his subordinates together, stretched out both hands, and made a figure of eight.

eight days.

The voice seemed to have a magical power, urging and bewitching those retainers and knights who had fought for him for more than three months.

"Only eight days?"

"Eight days is enough. Raid Erfurt, first grab him and turn the world upside down. Even if the city is burned, I will let everyone have a rich winter." Little Eckard broke the boat and promised to completely destroy Erfurt's economy. To make up for the losses of the knights.

"Okay, eight days will be eight days. Everyone tighten up and carry it together." Little Eckard's subordinates, under his bewitching, once again extended their service.

At the end of the meeting, little Eckard had to go to the toilet.

He saw a burst of blood-red urine splashed on the city wall, and convulsed for a while, but he didn't expect that it had already reached the point of urinating blood.

"I can't let them know about my condition... just hold on, hold on again."

Little Eckard tightened his belt and forcefully hypnotized himself.

In the evening of that day, he and the [-] troops that hastily assembled were weary and marched westward.

Little did they know, both he and Huo Teng chose to shorten the harvesting time.

Even going out on the same day.

Chapter 250 Six Was Wrong From the Beginning

Huo Teng forcibly compressed the harvesting time, and shortened the emergency time to 5 days by reforming farm tools.

Little Eckard mobilized urgently, but he frantically forced his subjects, relying on his orthodox Eckardson bloodline to force them to harvest in advance, shortening the time for mobilizing the army to 7 days.

So it was a coincidence that both of them were trying to raid the opponent, who had grasped the strategic initiative in advance, and squeezed the departure time to the same day.This seems to be the same as setting off together after the 15-day agricultural harvest, a look of involuntary to the end, wasting life.

Two smart people who were extremely curly, one east and one west, chased after each other, and started a two-way trip to meet in Erfurt in September.

But this seven or eight-day gap, compressed by doom, has profoundly changed the fate of Erfurt.

After all, it only takes 80 kilometers to reach the destination from Merseburg and Naumburg to the west, but Horten needs to drag an army of 5000 people to march 160 kilometers in the mountains to reach the textile city.It stands to reason that little Eckard would be able to reach his destination in three days with a forced march.However, there was a huge difference in the marching speed of the two sides.In this era, a march of 30 miles a day is considered normal speed, but some strong and good at running kings can increase the speed by more than two or three times.

"Fuck, you can only walk 40 miles a day?" Huo Teng rode on Laura's back and reprimanded the specially appointed quartermaster.This quartermaster is also a courtier turned from an old friend of the Huo Teng family, handed down from his grandfather's time.

The quartermaster is responsible for managing the vehicles pulled by hundreds of livestock and more than [-] archers and servants, and let them assist the armored army to carry supplies and armor.

"40 miles? 40 miles is high speed. In the generation of Otto III, the armor rate has never been as high as it is today. We brought food and water for 30 days, weighing a thousand pounds, plus armor arrows, Long spear cards, short swords and horse grass, more than ten years ago, 20 miles a day would have been wise and powerful." The quartermaster also slapped his thigh in anger.

What happened to forty miles?In the muddy land after the heavy rain, the army ran 40 miles a day, all fed and clothed, with high morale, otherwise what else do you want?

Running a hundred and eighty miles a day like Emperor Otto's surprise attack?

"Damn it... okay, keep going at this speed, but 8 days is only enough to reach the east of Thuringia." Huo Teng scratched his head, struggling.

Counting thousands of times, I forgot to count that the army with a high armor rate runs slowly.

On the other side, little Eckard pissed his crotch with blood for the second time, whipped the poor and thin horse, and urged and cursed: "That's it? Can't even run? I only walked eighteen miles today. It's really frustrating." You bastards are pissed off."

The surrounding nobles who were humiliated by Eckard's words were furious, but there was nothing they could do.

Little Eckard pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, and he was talking about marching.

The unit used by the Germans was inherited from the Romans, and a mile is the distance a person walks a thousand steps.Except that England in the barbaric era used their own unique system derived from the stick, the measurement units of the continent mainly evolved from the Roman system.

Although it is slightly longer than modern kilometers, it is not much worse.Converted to modern units, Huo Teng's army probably traveled more than 50 miles, and Little Eckard's army traveled 25 miles.

He scolded bitterly, and Count Zeitz quit.He stood up and scolded Eckard: "How can we go so fast? Look at the soldiers, their faces are yellow and emaciated, and they are eating green wheat. From time to time, some people go crazy, and some people have vomiting and diarrhea. Let the army rebel?"

"You..." Little Eckard was jealous, but he didn't dare to express it, so he could only shake his sleeves and said, "Then you can do whatever you want. I'm afraid that Erfurt's indigo is getting farther and farther away from us."

Although it is an angry statement, it seems to be confirming the reality.

Marching is a race against death.

The two armies running in both directions are chasing after each other. Although the distances are not equal, it seems that the approaching time will arrive on the same day.

……

Soon, Huo Teng learned the other party's location through the spies he sent out.

Huo Teng was extremely nervous. He knew that his opponent was closer to Erfurt than himself. Once his army entered the city, the city without walls would be easy to attack, but the destroyed workshops and economy would be hard to recover. .

Little Eckard didn't know that Huo Teng had set off.He also didn't feel that Huo Teng's troops were stronger than his own.He thought he came from the famous family of Eckard, and his territory was considered rich. Two thousand troops were enough to deal with Huo Teng who was hiding in the ravine, right?

At this time, he chose a dangerous path.

"The whole army is unarmored, and the armor is thrown away. We will go to the city with only helmets, swords and shields!"

Little Eckard once again slanted his sword.Since this summer, he has taken the slant of the sword countless times, but he has not lost a single time. He believes that he will definitely win.

Ditching all armor and sick personnel, they galloped on, risking their last breath of acceleration.

Little Eckard didn't even care about urinating blood, and at this time he even forgot to eat.

But on the other hand, Huo Teng couldn't leave the army's baggage behind.

He can run faster than little Eckard, all because of one advantage.That is the five cities with developed textile handicraft industry, all of which are not east of Erfurt.After Horten ran along the road from Millhouse to Bad Langensalza, his marching speed suddenly increased significantly.

One is because he finally left the mountains and walked onto Kangzhuang Avenue.The second is from the developed roads built between these cities.

Even if it is just a road that has been repaired and compacted, it is equivalent to a highway in this era.

Running along the highway all the way to the southeast, passing through Millhaus, Bad Langensalza, and Bad Tengstadt, Horten finally saw the low, broken city roots of Erfurt after seven days of departure.In this bustling town, the only old city walls come from the tribal era hundreds of years ago.In disrepair and useless.

Just like a beautiful big girl with no clothes on, she is so delicate and green.

The day Huo Teng arrived coincided with the time when the two elite knights, Keshihai and Natur, led their troops to confront the local people in the church.

The giant deer knight Natur slapped the table, his beard exploded, and he roared angrily, "Damn, you send out five people, and I send out five people. Go out and coax those trash away."

Keshihai had no choice but to turn his head and continue reading his Bible: "How can we suppress them? Do you think we are going to destroy this city?"

The two knights were full of resentment towards Huo Teng at the moment.

This Huo Teng is too deceitful, saying that he will arrive soon, but the army has been crawling for a month and a half, but there is no sign of him.The sense of security of the local citizens and dignitaries is decreasing day by day, and their trust in Huo Teng is also falling.Finally, on this day, he couldn't bear it, and encouraged the people to besiege the church, overtly and covertly coercing the knights of Keshihai to evacuate.