prince of europe in quintiles

[Glory Warrior Level 1: Recruitment cost -5%]

To Huo Teng's surprise, the skills drawn this time are also very useful, and can be used to reduce recruitment costs.This is a miracle, and the effect cannot be seen yet, but as long as more and more soldiers are recruited in the future, its effect will become stronger and stronger.

In addition to skill points, during this war, there are also spoils of war.

Shi Mulun raised his head and looked at Huo Teng, who was still young and tall, and could only sit slumped on the ground, feeling: "If I were younger and stronger now, I might not lose."

"I think it's better for you to consider reincarnation. As far as your poor command ability is concerned, I suspect that your father will test who you are."

Huo Teng laughed and asked someone to lift Shimalun up and stuff him into the iron-locked carriage.

This is the prisoner of war.

Of course, as a high-end earl prisoner, Schmallen is a major client of the prison with a separate private room.Although he was a little bit stuck in the carriage, his right to life was guaranteed.

The fate waiting for him is nothing more than his family collecting enough ransom to redeem him.

There was once a baron who lost to his opponent on the battlefield.Then because he couldn't pay the ransom for a long time, he actually lived in the opponent's house for 11 years.When he got enough ransom to go home and rule the castle again, he encountered no obstacles.It was acknowledged that the territory belonged to him.The capture of the Lionheart King is a very famous case.A king was imprisoned in an iron cage by the emperor.The ransom is scary.

But even though the corpses of the Shimalun army killed by Huo Teng were strewn across the field, looking back at the hospital on his side, there were nearly two hundred casualties.

It can be said to be a victory close to a tragic victory.

[A total of 1279 gold coins were plundered, do you want to exchange them? 】

The system directly converts the spoils obtained by Huo Teng's army from the battlefield into currency.It gave Huo Teng the confidence to continue playing.

The surprises don't stop there.

[Because of your performance on the battlefield, a halfling wandering tribe nearby has taken a fancy to your greatness.They decided to join you. 】1

As I said just now, halflings are a group of people who are good at cooking and herding.Thinking about how precious the horses would be if they were allowed to breed good horses, Huo Teng could hardly believe it.

Therefore, Huo Teng immediately allowed the halfling tribe to join.

Won, but not quite.

Huo Teng just reversed the situation.If he wanted to move on, he would have to face Earl Millhouse's subordinates, Du's dilemma.

In this way, there is still a long way to go to realize the victory into benefits.

……

Millhouse County.

Jeffrey and Henrik, who fled to the border, couldn't help wiping cold sweat from their foreheads with regret.

Henrik, who had coaxed Horten, patted his chest again and again: "My God, we can run away now. Are we going to the Principality of Saxony?"

"That's where I came from." Jeffrey snorted.

The robber knight still remembered that the Countess of Connorsa and Huo Teng once promised him that they would give him a piece of land and become a dignitary with a back cover.

This was quite tempting for Jeffrey, who was on the run for half his life, so Jeffrey thought of a dirty trick.

He coaxed Henrik and said: "You will go to those castles to cheat and open the gates under the banner of the robber knight. I guarantee your life will be speechless and you will make a fortune!"

Chapter 43 Take Command of the Army

Facts have proved that for most castles, as long as the people inside work together and garrison carefully, the external enemies are very difficult to conquer.

Especially in the absence of siege weapons.

Don't underestimate a mere aerial ladder, even if it is this thing, it is difficult for ordinary knights to produce qualified war industrial products.

Just like when the People's Republic of China was first founded, even chemical fertilizers and qualified steel industrial products could not be produced.

So Jeffrey is greedy for territory, and hopes that Henryk will take him to conquer several castles as the capital for his own credit.Although he is a chivalrous concealer produced by the system, that is just a background introduction. The real Jeffrey is just a well-known robber knight who organized a group of chivalrous concealers.

In fact, the background is still a robber knight without a fief.

For Henrik, his life is no different from Geoffrey's.

"Okay, it's a deal. But you give me some credit."

Jeffrey was adamant.

So the two robber knight brothers each led their subordinates, assembled and pretended to be regular soldiers fleeing from defeat, and went to a nearby castle for help.

Not to mention, not only did the enemy fail to notice the problem, but even many of their own people mistakenly thought that they were still soldiers of the defeated and captured Earl Schmalen, and they were going to rest in the nearby knight's castle.

But unfortunately, Jeffrey thought beautifully, but the nearby knights were not so stupid.Although the bandits led by him and Henrik pretended to be regular soldiers, they could never get rid of the ruffian atmosphere of not doing farming.The defenders on the top of the city are not stupid, they can distinguish the smell of robbers.Naturally, it was an explicit or implicit refusal, and some people even shot arrows to prevent the robbers from approaching.

Most of the nearby castles are subordinates of Schmalen.The pillars of their family were still fighting on the battlefield. At this time, a group of robbers came over and said, "Our army was defeated. Naturally, the castle was kept out of the house, and even the nearby farmers were called to take refuge in the castle."

Instead of taking the castle, Geoffrey caused a commotion.

Those castles in dangerous positions set off fireworks one after another, warning the nearby allies to be careful, and there are bandits infested.So much so that if Huo Teng's army continued to advance, they would face a land of thorns everywhere.

Geoffrey and Henrik returned home without a feather.

……

On the other hand, Huo Teng also encountered a lot of troubles.

In addition to the defeated and captured Schmalen, there are many defeated and captured knights.

Knights generally do not die on the battlefield, even farmers know that knights usually pay a lot of ransom.

So these knights gathered in the tent where they were being held, clamoring for Huo Teng to provide them with better treatment, otherwise they would go to the church to criticize Huo Teng's dark rule.

This is of course a joke.

But providing qualified services to captives is also a moral principle.It was as if they were Huo Teng's uncle.

Although this qualified service is obtained by paying a heavy sum of money, it is a kind of decent treatment that cannot be missing for the knight lord, otherwise what is the difference between them and ordinary prisoners of war?

The final pressure comes from the army itself.

After defeating Shimalun, the whole army started to make noise, hoping that Huo Teng could quickly deliver the promised bonus.

This raises two questions.

First, Huo Teng also needs the subjective initiative of the army.In other words, a group of well-fed dogs will not bite people, and the dogs must be kept hungry and turned into wolves.

Second, the army will inevitably damage Huo Teng's prestige in the process of turmoil.If this problem cannot be solved now, it will be difficult to gain power in the future.Not to mention that there is a group of knights who are eager to seize power.

But in the final analysis, it was Huo Teng's own problem.

In a normal war, will you give out a lot of money like [-] gold coins to reward the army?

Will not.That way, even if you win the game, you might still lose money.

Huo Teng urgently needed to mobilize the combat power of the army, so he broke this rule.After breaking the rules, the soldiers' jealousy is the sequelae.

After World War I, the five-star Emperor MacArthur drove tanks to fill the tracks of veterans in Washington, but Huo Teng couldn't let the knights suppress farmers, right? 2

There is still a long war ahead.

Huo Teng must quickly come up with a reliable plan, which can not only protect his face, but also continue to hang the army's combat effectiveness, so as not to collapse on the spot.

When Geoffrey and Henrik came back with a sad face, they thought that Horten would give a severe punishment.

Who knew Huo Teng was overjoyed when he heard about it.

He immediately sent people to "unintentionally" spread the news that the enemy's resistance was so fierce that the vanguard did not grab a grain of wheat.

This immediately disappointed many farmers who had lost so much in the Civil War in the summer and had to count on cutting off their neighbors' grain in that war.

Wars in the Middle Ages often evolved into harassing wars in which the two armies were unable to capture each other's castles by cutting off each other's wheat in order to suppress the other's economic capacity.

Objectively speaking, in the Middle Ages, when food production was extremely low, this cruel method was also needed to balance the dynamic gap between population and food.

In this way, the army stabilized first.

But morale was also declining, and the soldiers hoped that Huo Teng would pay the bonus sooner, and everyone would use the money to buy noodles.

At this moment, Huo Teng hastily released the second plan.

"What? The bonus should be replaced with food first?"

The militia gathered in front of the herald, full of pleasant surprises.

In modern times, anyone who dares to exchange wages for food would have been beaten to death long ago.But in ancient times, especially in rural areas with money but no land to spend, food was more important than money.

"And a [-]% premium, and [-]% more food?"

The militiamen immediately rejoiced, wishing to present their daughter to Huo Teng.

Then, someone told them: "When the army returns, it will be gathered in the free market of Göttingen. At that time, there will be a market that can be traded, and there will be currency merchants to help exchange various money and food."

Now, the militiamen simply forgot the master's entrustment.

Relying on these three axes, Huo Teng successfully stabilized the morale of the militiamen.

But for the knight masters, Huo Teng changed his rhetoric.

He gathered the knights with military exploits in the camp and told them: "You are all knights and nobles. All the money will be given to you first."

Of course, the knight gentlemen were disrespected.

But this matter, by coincidence, got out.

Rumors quickly turned to "The knight lords took all the rewards, so that Commander Horten had to pay out of his own pocket to distribute food at the market."

Such rumors intensified with the help of people with good intentions, so that Huo Teng came into contact with the private army of the knights for the first time.

These sergeants and militiamen also came to join Huo Teng after believing the rumors.

For the first time, Huo Teng successfully mastered the command of the three armies, and extended his claws to the left and right armies.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Huo Teng opened up the army's warehouse and distributed half of the grain to the peasants, secretly supporting the rumor that the knights ate everything.

Those knights never imagined that Huo Teng could take advantage of this incident to empty out their army.

They were still laughing, that idiot Huo Teng really paid him.

After all, the nobles in the Middle Ages had a very poor reputation in this matter, and most of the time they were nothing.

Chapter 44 Take advantage of both

"I am willing to cede a castle on the border as my ransom!"

So says Schmallen von Nosenberg.

He expressed it very naturally, as if drinking water.It can be seen from this that he should have been defeated and captured many times.

"A castle? Dear Earl, are you dreaming? A noble person like you can't afford to pay at least two or three thousand gold coins? Even if you don't pay, what is a castle? On behalf of the Earl of Göttingen, I formally present You tell me that unless you cede half of the territory and the 30 castles on it, this war will not end." Huo Teng bared his frosty teeth and opened his mouth to open half of the territory.

Thirty castles, or even more than half of the territory can be assembled.Of course Schmalen couldn't accept it.

"No, I refuse. It's not fair."

Huo Teng couldn't help shaking his head when he heard the words: "It's obvious that you started the unjust war, but now you're talking about fairness with me?"

For Schmalen, all he lost in the war of aggression was wealth, but Conosha... what did Conosha lose to him?

If you can capture your younger sister and marry an ally who is allied with you, wouldn't it be one daughter and two eaters?

"Justice? Are you kidding me? In today's empire, what is sacred?" Schmalen sneered again and again, not agreeing with any just war at all, "Besides, I am fighting for our family's territory. If Conosha marries If it is given to other people, this territory will become the property of other families, isn’t it ridiculous? Even if the Pope comes, he will have to recognize my justice.”

"Shit."

Of course Huo Teng scoffed.

If so, how could the Kingdom of France elect a king who was not a Carolingian?

It's nothing more than a matter of interest.

He turned and left, not giving Schmalen a chance to keep him.

In Schmalen's perception, defeating a battle is defeating him. If you pay the ransom, you can continue to be your own grand earl after cutting off a little bit of flesh.

But Huo Teng didn't think so.

Relying on the control of the army by sending food, he began to urge the army to move on, directly crossing various country castles, and pointing his sword at Earl Millhouse's main city, Fort Millhouse!

Due to the disastrous defeat in the battle, the nearby castles must be short of manpower and troops.Most of their main combat power, those knights, fell into Huo Teng's pocket.As for the robber knights, these bastards with milk and mothers, some fled far away to other counties, some hid in their hometowns, and the rest were particularly shameless, and even started to ask Huo Teng about the employment price.

They want to fight their former employer along with them!

In this regard, Huo Teng firmly refused.However, the news was made public to suppress the morale of the Schmalun captives.

Fort Millhouse is a town that has the functions of castle guard and city trade.At one end of it is a strong and towering castle, a large fortress with a stone base and a wooden wall, and at the other end is a small town with a low walled city and people living there.