prince of europe in quintiles

The unlucky one who encountered a cleave was Magde, Bishop of Weimar County.As soon as the illegitimate child case of Bishop Matt broke out, he immediately faced more cathartic voices from the reformists, so he could only write a letter in a hurry, asking Huo Teng to turn off the fire as soon as possible, so as to prevent this friction from intensifying the conflict between reformists and conservatives within the church.

Even Huo Teng himself didn't expect that the issue of a mere illegitimate child would become known to everyone around him, and the chain reaction would erupt like a chain.

But in fact, at this moment, he is gathering his new retainers to line up on a plain west of Göttingenburg.

Jeffrey, a bandit knight who was born as a chivalrous concealer, who was lucky enough to become the agent of the castle, asked the crusader and archer captain Grayb in a low voice with some doubts: "Hey, where are those knights from?"

In fact, it wasn't just Jeffrey, many of Huo Teng's new retainers were watching behind him.

Because there are 20 young knights who are almost tall, guarding Horten Bowenden.

Huo Teng enjoyed the gazes of his servants looking up, but deliberately concealed the origin of these knights.

Retinue knights, that is, the children of minor nobles who grew up with the training of full-time knights. They have not successfully presented the flag yet, but they are already qualified to become full-fledged knights.Therefore, the 20 riders around Huo Teng are all young and strong.They generally rode tall horses, and were equipped with light mail shirts, hoods, and round helmets, as well as lances, shields, and precious swords.

According to legend, this group of knights came from the Frisian region in the northwest, which is Greya's hometown.There is a war going on over there, and the master family of this group of retinue knights is defeated in the war, and their property and career are lost together.The retinue knights had no choice but to go out together.If Huo Teng hadn't taken them in, they would have become robbers and knights.

Huo Teng's first encounter with this group of retinue knights was also very interesting.

At that time, he was just going up the Yachi River to inspect his own forest, and found this group of desolate knight candidates in a camp on the side of the road.

So Huo Teng brought them back.

Of course, Huo Teng claimed that these young people volunteered to join the army after hearing about the chivalrous counterattack.The retinue knights didn't want others to think that they were out of luck, so they gratefully accepted this statement.

In short, everything is reasonable, but the result is unreasonable.

This battle also reveals irrationality everywhere.

The purpose of the battle is nonsense, it is for Bishop Matt's crotch.

The choice of the location of the battle is correct, but the strength of one's own army is very strange.Huo Teng assembled nearly [-] elite archers, but only brought more than [-] sergeants and militiamen from the vassals, and then gathered [-] or [-] knights to form a strange army with two big heads.

Most knights understand that if there are not enough melee soldiers in a fierce battle, then the archers and logistics teams will be overwhelmed by a wave.

But Huo Teng always has various strange tricks.

He actually asked the farmers to dig the soil on the plain at the junction of the two counties and built a very small earthen tower.

Moreover, more than one was built, with more than a dozen towers and the parapets connecting them, forming a temporary but solid small city.

Jeffrey didn't quite understand that the chest-high earthen wall can be jumped over by a war horse. Isn't this giving someone a head?

At that time, everyone will be imprisoned in this small village, saying that every day should not be done, and the earth will not work.

But Huo Teng had already ordered, so he could only follow through.

By mid-afternoon, the enemy on the opposite side had arrived.

And Huo Teng is still stepping up to consolidate his small watchtower system, so that hundreds of archers are clustered on different watchtowers, forming a multi-dimensional attack surface.That's good, but how can the enemy attack here?

Huo Teng chose to humiliate the enemy's envoy very sinisterly.

As we all know, before the battle, the nobles should send envoys to each other, send a letter of war, and agree on the time and place of the battle.

However, after Huo Teng saw Earl Tapler's emissary, he turned and walked into the inner room without saying a word.

When he came out again, he was holding a green turtle in his hand.

In this way, the knights in the hall couldn't help laughing.

"Why are you laughing? This is a gift from me to Earl Tapler." When Huo Teng reprimanded the knights righteously, the envoy was already trembling with anger, turned around and left angrily.

He knew that if he stopped, he would be humiliating himself.

Before leaving, he also took the opportunity to observe Huo Teng's earthworks.After discovering that the parapet couldn't stop the knight at all, he kept this weakness in mind.

And Huo Teng just watched the show with the armrests, as if the sky was calm.

But when the sun went down, Huo Teng immediately mobilized a group of farmers and soldiers who could see the ground clearly at night, and began to dig down along the parapet.A trench was dug in this way, and then widened, finally forming a large moat about two or three meters deep and two or three meters wide.

The enemy probably never imagined that Huo Teng would do such tricks behind the original flat parapet.

Jeffrey, who had seen Huo Teng's entire operation, could only shake his head and applaud.

"You are still insidious."

Chapter 64 The victory and defeat are only in an instant

"What's insidious or not? This is called a well-built fortification. On the premise that the enemy is strong and we are weak, and there is no formal declaration of war, I am doing this to protect myself." Huo Teng waved his hands and said, "No attack." A letter of war is not equal to a challenge', 'it is the enemy's fault that the enemy eats ours' and so on.

It sounds reasonable, but it seems so ironic when it comes to reality.

Isn't it still a design to entrap the other party?

Because there is no formal declaration of war, the enemy's attack can be regarded as an unjust attack, pointing fingers from the moral high ground.

And because of the opponent's unjust attack, informal combat methods can be used to avoid the punishment of secular morality.

In the end, Huo Teng was able to copy his tactics as much as possible because he avoided the viewpoint of secular morality.

But the problem is that Earl Tapler fell into the trap under Huo Teng's deliberate seduction.Horten was not prepared to fight a conventional war with Earl Tapler from the very beginning.

After all, in the case of conventional combat, Göttingen County is actually not as strong as Kassel County.What's even more frightening is that, as a hilly country, Kassel County is poor and has no minerals, so it is not worthwhile to win.

Using trap tactics, one can avoid the comparison of troops in ordinary combat, and two, it is more convenient to highlight Huo Teng's ability.

But in fact, Huo Teng's tactics are nothing more than picking up people's teeth.

It is really because the development of the art of war was indeed lacking in the middle and early Middle Ages.The war among the knights is nothing more than gathering a group of warriors to fight the enemy head-on.If we talk about grand strategy, it is not without it.Otto the Great wiped out the Magyar cavalry, the Vikings' leapfrog tactics on the coast, etc., are quite interesting battle histories.

But the gap between those grand histories and the hundreds of people fighting in the neighborhood is far away.

In particular, it should be noted that human war capabilities are not constant.This is a use-it-or-lose-it ability that decays extremely quickly.It only takes a generation or two to bring the great art of conducting to naught.For example, before the Arab army went north, the Merovingian dynasty in Western Europe was not very familiar with how cavalry fought because of peace and civil war.

Why does civil war also make people set back?

Because the bad battle is getting worse and worse, and you will be dragged to the lowest level unconsciously and become a bad guy.A typical example is a mold that can only fight security warfare, but has the world's most advanced equipment, and will frantically deflate where the enemy is a little tougher.

Huo Teng was not worried that Earl Tapler would wake up. Anyway, he had never heard of hundreds of people fighting with weapons, and he needed to command art.

Sure enough, when Earl Tepler heard that Horten was going to give him a green turtle, he became even more furious.

The hatred of the family, as well as his greed for the rich waterways in Göttingen County, made Earl Teppler suddenly lose his sense of calm.

He went out of the camp, carefully observed the fragile defense system built by Huo Teng, and gave Huo Teng a low score in his heart.

The garbage-like arrow towers collapsed as soon as the infantry surrounded them.

The dilapidated walls are only as high as the chest.For a ball.

In the face of the knight's charge, this thing can't stand for a whole morning.

What's even more funny is that Huo Teng even sent his knights to camp further back on the hills, as if to protect these precious warriors.

Then, Huo Teng actually let some trembling militiamen block behind the parapet.

"He doesn't think that he can stop us by building a precarious and broken bunker on the border?" Earl Tapler looked around in amazement.

At this time, it was probably the end of the 10th century in the Middle Ages.

When the dark age has developed to the present, it has basically reached the dawn of civilization revival.In Western Europe, whether it is natural technology or agricultural technology, or the combat ability of the knight army, they are all improved through the experience of various pirates, bandits, and various monsters and ghosts.Although it seems outrageous to Easterners, Bibi Africa, Bibi more backward areas, and several kingdoms under the leadership of the Christian Church in Western Europe can be regarded as the world's middle class.

As a secondary civilization of the Roman-Greek civilization, under the blessing of Christianity, Western Europe at this time has developed technology to provide iron weapons and armor, and society has made the cost of knights relatively low.

Western European knights are in a bonus period when their equipment is not outdated, their fighting desire is extremely high, and their cost is low.

The knights in other places detoured facing the wall and facing the strong enemy.And Western European knights are the top iron, dare to rush and fight.Dare to lengthen the lance, dare to fight the enemy to the death.

Not that they are unique.

Mainly poor, backward, lack of imagination and flexible thinking.If you look at the Italians and Greeks in Southern Europe and the Balkans, the wealthy knights there generally lack combat effectiveness.It is also necessary to bring in immigrant knights from poor places.

"Rush, we will rush tomorrow!"

Earl Tapler immediately decided to do it tomorrow.

Anyway, if Huo Teng is not going to fight, then Earl Teppler will not pretend to be a gentleman.

Why not call at night?

It is true that most people, including the knight himself, often cannot see it at night.

The next day.

Huo Teng ordered all the knights to retreat to the small hill, ready to attack the enemy from the flank at any time.And gathered dozens of sergeants and servants to block behind the parapet.

Nearly 400 archers are distributed on more than ten earthen towers, houses and walls, forming a big hedgehog.

It seems reasonable. There are walls and watchtowers. In Western Europe, which has not developed the ability to build watchtowers during wartime, it is also very unique.

The only question is, is this illegal building stable?

In the eyes of the Kassel knights, that is a piece of garbage.

The knights of the Cassel family gathered under the banner of the Patriarch, and they lined up to form a charge according to the knight formation they had been taught since they were young.

They drove their horses, raised their shields, and moved forward slowly.

In front of them was the trembling parapet, and Sergeant Huo Teng was already trembling behind the wall.

When the distance came to 80 meters, the crusaders and rangers had drawn their longbows and fired their precious arrows.In order to supplement them, Huo Teng specially hired a blacksmith to make and restore them.

So armor-piercing and wind-piercing arrows flew in, but the effect...was nothing more than making the knights curl up and hide behind the shields, and collectively urged the horses to speed up.

Arrows get stuck in the chain mail, and the damage to the knight is the most.Only one unlucky guy was accidentally shot in the face and fell off the horse on the spot.

When they came within the range of 50 meters, an ordinary archer, a large number of arrows did some damage to the knight.

But it was nothing more than an occasional hit, and the few knights who fell fell only because the horses were shot and injured because the horses were not protected enough.

30 meters, when they arrived here, the knights of the Kassel family had already started to urge the horses to charge with all their strength, and the charge was so short that the archers had no time to shoot to stop them.It is also another proof of not getting ready for the battle.

By this time, Earl Tapler had seen victory.

Because Huo Teng's soldiers were shaking like sifting chaff, turned and fled impatiently, completely exposing the parapet.

In front of the parapet, Earl Tapler pulled up handsomely, causing the horse to leap high and jump over the parapet.

However... What appeared in front of my eyes was not flat land and the dawn of victory, but a big pit!

A big hole dug overnight.

At this point, the reason why the soldiers trembled like chaff was solved.Who stands on a thin board without trembling?That sense of fear is really not wanting to fall into the ditch.

With a drop of more than three meters, even a fairy horse can't save it.Hundreds of catties of self-weight pressed down, killing Earl Tapler's horse on the spot. Although the unlucky Earl survived, the shock almost shattered his heart.

Members of his family jumped over or broke through the parapet proudly one by one, and fell into the dangerous pit one after another, unable to get up again.

The knight behind saw this scene, but it was too late to jump the horse, so they could only use all means to turn or stop the horse.Like a gourd on a string of vines, it rolled and crawled and fell into the pit.

What was even more wicked was that Huo Teng told the sergeants and archers not to stop, shoot vigorously and stab vigorously, making sure to disarm the enemy knights.

"Remember, you must publicize it to the knights and nobles. This is caused by the enemy's sneak attack on our camp without a letter of war." Huo Teng also specially warned his subordinates not to destroy His glorious image.

The subordinates all nodded their heads.

It seems that the war situation should also be over.

But at this moment, the situation of the war has reversed again.

Those knights and horses who had fallen before had to fill up the ditch!

Twenty or thirty knights fell, but at least half of the knights still managed to break through the barrier of the parapet.

Huo Teng's sergeants are not very good, and the formation is broken.

When the war horse collided with the earthen tower, a dozen archers fell, and a few knights charged, and dozens of archers could be driven away.

Earl Teppler took down Horten's trench defense with the sacrifice of knights!

"what's the situation?"

Before Huo Teng had time to command, he was immediately picked up by his subordinates and ran outside.

Chapter 65 Göttingen, can't survive this winter

Although Huo Teng thinks he has little tactical ability, he still ignores the tactical characteristics of this era.

That is to make great efforts to produce miracles.

The family and social life of the knights revolved entirely around force. From foster care when they were young, to tournaments and hunting outings in their prime, all of them contained combat training.Putting aside this group of knights who have been on the battlefield all their lives, or are preparing to play defensive skills in front of the battlefield, they first need to have excellent skills.